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2011 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 30. PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
ARTICLE 3. WEST VIRGINIA MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT.
- §30-3-1. Legislative findings.
- §30-3-2. Purpose.
- §30-3-3. Short title.
- §30-3-4. Definitions.
- §30-3-5. West Virginia Board of Medicine powers and duties continued; appointment and terms of members; vacancies; removal.
- §30-3-6. Conduct of business of West Virginia Board of Medicine; meetings; officers; compensation; expenses; quorum.
- §30-3-7. Powers and duties of West Virginia Board of Medicine.
- §30-3-7a. Findings and Rule-making authority.
- §30-3-8. State health officer to act as secretary of the board.
- §30-3-9. Records of board; expungement; examination; notice; public information; voluntary agreements relating to alcohol or chemical dependency; confidentiality of same; physician-patient privileges.
- §30-3-10. Licenses to practice medicine and surgery or podiatry.
- §30-3-10a. Special volunteer medical license; civil immunity for voluntary services rendered to indigents.
- §30-3-11. Endorsement of licenses to practice medicine and surgery and podiatry; fees; temporary license; summer camp doctors.
- §30-3-11a. Endorsement of licenses to practice medicine and surgery as medical school faculty.
- §30-3-12. Biennial renewal of license to practice medicine and surgery or podiatry; continuing education; rules; fee; inactive license.
- §30-3-13. Unauthorized practice of medicine and surgery or podiatry; criminal penalties; limitations.
- §30-3-14. Professional discipline of physicians and podiatrists; reporting of information to Board pertaining to medical professional liability and professional incompetence required; penalties; grounds for license denial and discipline of physicians and podiatrists; investigations; physical and mental examinations; hearings; sanctions; summary sanctions; reporting by the Board; reapplication; civil and criminal immunity; voluntary limitation of license; probable cause determinations.
- §30-3-15. Medical corporations; podiatry corporations; application for registration; fees; notice to secretary of state of issuance of certificate; action by secretary of state; rights and limitations generally; biennial registration; when practice to cease; admissibility and effect of certificate signed by secretary of board; criminal penalty; severability.
- §30-3-16. Physician assistants; definitions; Board of Medicine rules; annual report; licensure; temporary license; relicensure; job description required; revocation or suspension of licensure; responsibilities of supervising physician; legal responsibility for physician assistants; reporting by health care facilities; identification; limitations on employment and duties; fees; continuing education; unlawful representation of physician assistant as a physician; criminal penalties.
- §30-3-16a. Special volunteer physician assistant license; civil immunity for voluntary services rendered to indigents.
- §30-3-17. Limitation of article.
- §30-3-18.
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